- 49th Season • 470th Production SEGERSTROM STAGE / MARCH 29 - APRIL 28, 2013 Marc Masterson Paula Tomei ARTISTIC DIRECTOR MANAGING DIRECTOR David Emmes & Martin Benson FOUNDING ARTISTIC DIRECTORS presents Smokefall by Noah Haidle Marsha Ginsberg Melanie Watnick David Weiner Lindsay Jones SCENIC DESIGN COSTUME DESIGN LIGHTING DESIGN ORIGINAL MUSIC/SOUND DESIGN John Glore Joshua Marchesi Jamie A. Tucker* DRAMATURG PRODUCTION MANAGER STAGE MANAGER Directed by Anne Kauffman Bette and Wylie Aitken Honorary Producers A World Premiere Co-Production with Goodman Theatre, Chicago, Illinois SMOKEFALL was commissioned by Goodman Theatre Smokefall • South CoaSt RepeRtoRy • P1 CAST OF CHARACTERS (In order of appearance) Violet ............................................................................................... Heidi Dippold* Footnote/Fetus Two ............................................................................. Leo Marks* Colonel/Johnny .................................................................................. Orson Bean* Beauty ......................................................................................... Carmela Corbett* Daniel/Fetus One ................................................................................. Corey Brill* Sparky .............................................................................................................. Max* SETTING A house in Grand Rapids, Michigan. LENGTH Approximately one hour and 30 minutes with no intermission. PRODUCTION STAFF Casting .................................................................................... Joanne DeNaut, CSA Assistant Stage Manager ................................................................ Kathryn Davies* Assistant Director .................................................................................... Beth Lopes Dog Wrangler ............................................................................. Katherine McKalip Assistant Scenic Designers .................................... Michael Simmons, Liz Toonkel Costume Design Assistant ........................................................... Melody Broscious Stage Management Interns ................... Caitlin Dominguez, Stephanie Hawkins Light Board Operator ..................................................................... Aaron Shetland Sound Board Operator ...................................................................... GW Rodriguez Automation Operator .................................................................. Victor Mouledoux Wardrobe Supervisor ............................................................................. Bert Henert Additional Costume Staff ................................................ Jess Brown, Sarah Timm * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers. Please refrain from unwrapping candy or making other noises that may disturb surrounding patrons. Video taping and/or recording of this performance by any means whatsoever are strictly prohibited. Cellular phones, beepers and watch alarms should be turned off or set to non-audible mode during the performance. Smoking is not permitted anywhere in the theatre. Segerstrom Stage Season Media Partner Media Partner P2 • South CoaSt RepeRtoRy • Smokefall Footfalls It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves. ~ Thornton Wilder oah Haidle quotes from T.S. Eliot’s “Burnt Norton” as the epi- There is a land of the living and a land of the dead Ngraph for the printed text of Smokefall. and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only Here is the opening of that poem; the eight lines fol- meaning. lowing the ellipsis are those used as Haidle’s epigraph. ~ Thornton Wilder Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, It is right that he too should have his little chron- And time future contained in time past. icle, his memories, his reason, and be able to rec- If all time is eternally present ognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, All time is unredeemable. and so grow gently old down all the unchanging What might have been is an abstraction days, and die one day like any other day, only Remaining a perpetual possibility shorter. Only in a world of speculation. ~ Samuel Beckett What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present. Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Estragon: I can’t go on like this. Towards the door we never opened Vladimir: That’s what you think. Into the rose-garden. … Estragon: If we parted? That might be better for Time past and time future us. Allow but a little consciousness. Vladimir: We’ll hang ourselves tomorrow. To be conscious is not to be in time (Pause.) Unless Godot comes. But only in time can the moment in the rose-garden, Estragon: And if he comes? The moment in the arbour where the rain beat, Vladimir: We’ll be saved. The moment in the draughty church at smokefall Estragon: Well? Shall we go? Be remembered; involved with past and future. Vladimir: Pull on your trousers. Only through time time is conquered Estragon: What? Vladimir: Pull on your trousers. ~ T.S. Eliot, “Burnt Norton” Estragon: You want me to pull off my trousers? Vladimir: Pull ON your trousers. Estragon: (realizing his trousers are down) Hello, I must be going. True. I cannot stay, (He pulls up his trousers.) I came to say Vladimir: Well? Shall we go? I must be going. Estragon: Yes, let’s go. I’m glad I came (They do not move.) But just the same I must be going. ~ final lines of Waiting for Godot ~ Groucho Marx by Samuel Beckett Smokefall • South CoaSt RepeRtoRy • P3 Artist Biographies drama division, where some of her roles included ORSON BEAN* Colonel/Johnny Sorel in Hayfever, Helena in All’s Well that Ends Well, Isabella Bird and Nell in Top Girls, Miss Leighton in is making his SCR debut. He was Once in a Lifetime and Amy in Mine by Laura Marks. nominated for a Screen Actors Originally from London, she moved to New York at 19 Guild award for his performance to study at the Lee Strasberg Institute during which in the film Being John Malkovich. time she auditioned for Juilliard. She narrates for Au- He starred on Broadway for 20 dible Books and is a member of the Misrule Theatre years, winning a Theater World Company in the UK. She has also performed with the Award and a Tony Award nomination in the process. National Youth Theatre and National Youth Music He appeared on “The Tonight Show” more than 200 Theatre of Great Britain, most notably at her majesty times, 100 of them as substitute host. He played Mrs. Queen Elizabeth’s private 80th birthday celebration. McCluskey’s husband in the final three seasons of “Desperate Housewives,” and beat Charlie Sheen with HEIDI DIPPOLD* a cane on “Two and a Half Men.” It seems to have Violet done Charlie no good. He is blessed to be married to the actress Alley Mills. first appeared onstage at SCR in the world premiere of Noah Hai- COREY BRILL* dle’s Mr. Marmalade and later in Daniel/Fetus One Joe Penhall’s Dumb Show. She re- cently received a Big Easy Award made his SCR debut last season for her work as Olivia in Twelfth as Mr. Darcy in Pride and Preju- Night at The New Orleans Shakespeare Festival. She dice and is thrilled to be back. has also appeared onstage at Berkeley Repertory The- Broadway credits include Gore Vi- atre, Long Wharf Theatre, Signature Theatre (New dal’s The Best Man, Bengal Tiger York City) and The Cleveland Play House, to name a at the Baghdad Zoo (understudy) few. Favorite television roles include a recurring role and Cabaret (Broadway national tour). Regional the- on HBO’s “The Sopranos,” serial killing identical twins atre credits include How I Learned to Drive (Santa on “NCIS” and Jeffrey Tambor’s love interest on the Monica Rep), The Glass Menagerie (The Kennedy sitcom “20 Good Years.” She has appeared in numer- Center), Doubt (Seattle Repertory Theatre); Opus ous commercials and survived the horrible horror (The Old Globe); Lady Windermere’s Fan and On film, House. She would like to thank “Joanne, Noah, the Razzle (Williamstown Theatre Festival), The Bay Anne, my family and most of all Shad and my little at Nice (Hartford Stage), Beauty (La Jolla Playhouse), bunny, Tess for allowing me to have this opportunity.” Twelfth Night and Three Sisters (Chalk Repertory The- She is an MFA graduate of Rutgers University Mason atre). Television appearances include “CSI: Miami” Gross School of the Arts. and “Confessions of a Dog.” He earned his MFA from University of California, San Diego. coreybrill.com LEO MARKS* Footnote/Fetus Two CARMELA CORBETT* Beauty returns to SCR, after appearing as George in the world premiere is thrilled to be returning to SCR of The Language Archive and Bill after appearing in Eurydice by Walker in Major Barbara. He has Sarah Ruhl, and in the reading also performed at Berkeley Reper- of Steven Drukman’s new play, tory Theatre, Seattle Repertory Death of the Author. She is a Theatre, Washington, D.C.’s Shakespeare Theatre recent graduate of the Juilliard Company, The Old Globe, Intiman Theatre, Geffen P4 • South CoaSt RepeRtoRy • Smokefall Playhouse, Ahmanson Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, Kirk Douglas Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, BETTE AND WYLIE AITKEN (Honorary Producers) Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre, La MaMa E.T.C., are treasured supporters of SCR and have been Soho Rep, and Playwrights Horizons, among many particularly enthusiastic in their underwriting